Prof. Richard Sakwa: We are witnessing the twilight of US unipolarity and the political West

On this episode of New Order, we speak to Richard Sakwa, Professor Emeritus of Politics at the University of Kent. He discusses the twilight of the political West and the end of the unipolar world, the 1914 levels of war fever in Europe against Russia as the Ukraine proxy war rages on, the declining impact of US and European sanctions against Russia, the evolution of the foreign policy of India and other Global South countries as US unipolarity declines, the increasing irrelevance of the United Nations in the new world order and why the world must double down on the UN, why this is the most difficult time in US-India relations in the last three decades, his detention at the UK’s Heathrow Airport, the groupthink in Western Europe over Russia and the rise of new powers, and much more.

Finally, New Order’s Zarah Khan asks questions from you the viewers to Afshin Rattansi. You can send in your questions to be answered to @AfshinRattansi on X to be answered on next week’s episode!

And a question for you, the viewers: How does India and the Global South deal with the threat of Western Europe’s war fever against Russia?